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Jukebox
A phonograph or compact disc player with multiple discs requiring the insertion of coins prior to playing and allowing the user to select the playing of any disc in its inventory An early
Inauguration Day
United States is inaugurated the 20th of January in every year next after a year divisible by four Prior to the adoption of the twentieth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified February 6 1933
hand me down
obtained or used after prior use by another person
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Gold
An old English name of some yellow flower the marigold Calendula according to Dr Prior but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole
earlier
occurring at a prior time as on earlier occasions
Clergy
rules, being of some religious order, and were called men of religion, or the religious, such as abbots, priors, monks, etc.; and (2) secular, who did not live under any certain rules of the religious orders, as
Lords of Erection
of Erection. On the Reformation in Scotland, the king, as proprietor of benefices formerly held by abbots and priors, gave them out in temporal lordships to favourites, who were termed Lords of Erection.
Repeal
or implied, the rule being that a later Act repeals a former one if contradictory thereto, Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant. By s. 11 of the Inter-pretation Act, 1889, re-enacting s. 5 of Lord Brougham's Act (13
Statute Law Revision Acts
parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had
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